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'''Years:''' 1875 1876 1877 - 1878 -
1879 1880 1881
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'''Decades:''' 1840s 1850s 1860s - '''
1870s''' -
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'''1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII)''' was a
common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
* January -
Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London
*
January 9 -
Humbert I of Italy Humbert I becomes
House of Savoy King of Italy
*
January 5 -
Battle of Shipka Pass IV
*
January 17 -
Battle of Plovdiv
*
January 23 -
Disraeli orders British fleet to
Dardanelles
*
January 28 - ''
The Yale News'' becomes the first daily, college
newspaper in the
United States.
*
January 31 - Turkey agrees to
armistice at
Adrianople
*
February 2 -
Greece declares war on
Turkey.
*
February 8 - British fleet enters Turkish waters and anchors off
Constantinople - Russia threatens to occupy Constantinople but does not carry out the threat
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*
February 11 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.
*
February 11 - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK
*
February 18 - The
Lincoln County War begins in
Lincoln County, New Mexico
*
February 19 - The
phonograph is patented by
Thomas Edison
*
February 20 -
Leo XIII becomes new
pope
*
February 24 - Anti-Russian demonstrations in
Hyde Park, London
*
February 28 -
Mississippi State University is created by the
Mississippi State legislature Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi)
*
March 3 -
Bulgaria regained its independence from
Ottoman Empire.
*
March 3 - The
Treaty of San Stefano concludes the
Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War
*
March 24 - The
United Kingdom UK frigate ''Eurydice'' sinks, killing 300.
*
March 25 - Russia rejects British proposal to lay San Stefano treaty before European congress
*
March 27 - In anticipation with war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes the reserves and calls up Indian troops to
Malta
May - August
*
May 15 -
Tokyo Stock Exchange established
*
June 4 -
Cyprus Convention: The
Ottoman Empire cedes
Cyprus to the
United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
*
June 12-
July 12 -
Congress of Berlin about the
Ottoman Empire
*
July 13 - The
Treaty of Berlin, 1878 Treaty of Berlin makes
Serbia,
Montenegro and
Romania completely independent
*
July 26 - In
California, the poet and
American West outlaw calling himself "
Charles Bolles Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a
Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting
poem inside.
September - December
*
September 3 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat ''
Princess Alice'' collides with the ''
Bywell Castle'' in the
River Thames.
*
October 1 -
Virginia Tech Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.
*
October 14 - The worlds first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at
Bramall Lane in
Sheffield
*
October 15 - The
Edison Electric Company begins operation.
*
October 17 -
John A. Macdonald returns to office as
Prime Minister of Canada.
*
November 21 -
Second Afghan War commences when the British attack
Ali Masjid in the
Khyber Pass.
*
November 29 - Kahua, the chief of
Jaluits in the
Marshall Islands, declares himself king of the
Ralik Islands
Unknown date
*
The Buchan School was founded on the
Isle of Man.
*
Newton Heath founded in that year. Later the team was renamed as Manchester United.
*
Yellow fever in
Mississippi Valley - over 13.000 dead
* US arbitration rejects
Argentina Argentinean claims to
Paraguay's part of
Chaco region
*
West Bromwich Albion F.C. play their first match.
*
The Hindu founded
*
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is the first one to navigate the
Northern Sea Route, which is a shipping lane from the
Atlantic Ocean to the
Pacific Ocean along the
Siberian coast.
* The
Stawell Gift is run for the first time.
Births
*
January 6 -
Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d.
1967)
*
January 12 -
Ferenc Molnar Ferenc Molnár, author (d.
1952)
*
January 20 -
Ruth St. Denis, dancer (d.
1968)
*
January 25 -
Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d.
1975)
*
February 2 -
Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect (d.
1955)
*
February 5 -
André Citroën, French automobile manufacturer (d.
1935)
*
February 8 -
Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (d.
1965)
*
February 14 -
Hirota Koki,
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1948)
*
February 26 -
Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (d.
1930)
*
March 16 -
Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Catholic cardinal (d.
1946)
*
March 22 -
Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete (d.
1919)
*
March 31 -
Jack Johnson (boxer) Jack Johnson, American boxer (d.
1946)
*
April 6 -
Erich Mühsam, German author (d.
1934)
*
April 24 -
Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d.
1958)
*
April 28 -
Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d.
1954)
*
April 28 -
Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d.
1951)
*
May 10 -
Gustav Stresemann,
Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1929)
*
May 26 -
Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d.
1927)
*
May 28 -
Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d.
1945)
*
June 1 -
John Masefield, English poet and novelist (d.
1967)
*
June 3 -
Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer (d.
1946)
*
June 5 -
Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d.
1923)
*
July 4 -
George M. Cohan, American singer, dancer, composer, actor, and writer (d.
1942)
*
July 24 -
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (d.
1957)
*
August 10 -
Alfred Döblin, German writer (d.
1957)
*
August 28 -
George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1976)
*
August 31 -
Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d.
1933)
*
September 5 -
Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist (d.
1913)
*
September 13 -
Matilde Moisant, American pilot (d.
1964)
*
September 22 -
Yoshida Shigeru,
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1967)
*
September 20 -
Upton Sinclair, American writer (d.
1968)
*
September 24 -
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d.
1947)
*
October 1 -
Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d.
1950)
*
October 16 -
Maxey Long, American athlete (d.
1959)
*
November 1 -
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1959)
*
November 14 -
Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d.
1957)
*
November 17 -
Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (d.
1939)
*
December 18 -
Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (d.
1953)
*
December 25 -
Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race driver and automobile builder (d.
1941)
*
December 25 -
Joseph Schenck, Russian-born film executive (d.
1961)
*
December 31 -
Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (d.
1966)
*
December 31 -
Horacio Quiroga, Argentina's writer was born in Salto, Uruguay (d.
1937)
Deaths
*
January 9 - King
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b.
1820)
*
January 18 -
Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (b.
1788)
*
February 7 -
Pope Pius IX (b.
1792)
*
February 11 -
Gideon Welles, American politician (b.
1802)
*
February 19 -
Charles-Francois Daubigny, French painter (b.
1817)
*
March 8 -
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (b.
1802)
*
April 12 -
William Marcy Tweed, American politician (b.
1823)
*
April 25 -
Anna Sewell, English author (b.
1820)
*
May 28 -
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1792)
*
June 6 -
Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (b.
1790)
* June 6 -
Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers,
Marshal of France (b.
1795)
*
June 8 -
Porter Rockwell, Mormon bodyguard (b.
1815)
*
June 12 -
George V of Hanover (b.
1819)
*
July 17 -
Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b.
1812)
*
November 28 -
Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b.
1805)
*
December 10 -
Henry Wells, American businessman (b.
1805)
*
December 14 -
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (b.
1843)
*
Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (b.
1818)
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